Among the attendees at the sentencing were family members of some of Frankin's victims as well as five members of the jury that voted to sentence Kennedy to death.

Laverne Peters' 25-year-old daughter was among the Grim Sleeper's victims. She addressed the court prior to the sentencing.

"The defendant took my daughter, murdered her, put her in a plastic bag – a trash bag – like she was trash," Peters said. “My hope is that he spends the rest of his glory days in his jail cell, which will become his trash bag."

The murders of Peters' daughter and nine others occurred between 1985 and 1988 and between 2002 and 2007.